Skill - ERP Solution Architect (SAP / Oracle / other ERP's) | Functional Expert Leading Large Enterprise Platforms (spanning SAP and other technologies) in the Capacity of a SME or a Track Lead role
Join our team in Technology Strategy & Advisory for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from technology.
Practice: Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Platform strategy, migration, assessment, implementation in areas of SAP /Oracle / RAMCO / other ERP's - ERP platforms advisory
Level: 7 Manager
Years of Exp: 12+ Years (minimum)
The Practice A Brief Sketch
The is a part of and focuses on our clients' most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.
Here is a glimpse of your day-to-day responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business processes, challenges, and goals.
- Provide strategic advice on selecting, implementing, and optimizing ERP platforms.
- Conduct assessments of existing ERP systems and recommend improvements or upgrades.
- Develop and document ERP strategies, roadmaps, and best practices.
- Lead or support ERP implementation projects, including system configuration, testing, and deployment.
- Ensure seamless integration of ERP systems with other business applications.
- Provide training and support to end-users to maximize system adoption and efficiency.
- Stay updated on the latest ERP trends, technologies, and industry best practices.
- Identify risks and develop mitigation strategies during ERP projects.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, finance, supply chain, and HR, to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:
- Strong knowledge of ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or others.
- Experience in ERP implementation, configuration, and optimization.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with stakeholders at all levels.
- Project management experience, including planning, execution, and monitoring.
- Familiarity with business processes across various domains (e.g., finance, supply chain, HR).
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Knowledge of data migration, system integration, and change management principles.
- Relevant certifications in ERP platforms (e.g., SAP Certified Application Associate, Oracle ERP Cloud Certification) are a plus.
- Work closely with stakeholders to gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure successful implementation and optimization of SAP solutions.
- Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation.
- The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.
- Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business , how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.
- Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.
- Participation in Pre-Sales, Bid Management and overall appreciation of estimation, scoping and assumptions for a large SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA implementation using various methods such as ASAP or Activate or others.
- Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains.
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders and ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions.
- Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.
- Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.
- Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements.
Your experience counts!
- MBA from a Tier-1 institute
- Minimum experience of 15 years and above in SAP ERP and should have led S/4 HANA implementation/ transformation projects (Solution Architect/ Project Lead)
- Working experience across:
- Led business workshops and roadmap sessions in defining a solution blueprint for SAP S/4 environment or other ERP platforms. Expertise in Order to Cash, SCM, and cross functional integration with other modules. Cross-module Integration knowledge with Third party planning tools, Ability to drive requirement gathering sessions and discussions with business stakeholders and IT in terms of adoption of SAP capabilities offered in S/4 HANA in line with best practices and provide a point of view on transformation/ migrations/ changes from current SAP ECC or other legacy ERPs.
- Experience in consulting or advisory roles within the ERP domain.
- Understanding of emerging technologies such as AI, machine learning, and cloud computing in ERP systems.
- Understanding of SAP's integration approach and methods such as SAP PI or SAP Cloud Integration platform. Understanding of SAP Leonardo platform w.r.t IoT, AI and ML.
- Expertise in creation of business case, functional prototypes in demonstrating the value and impact of an SAP S/4 deployment, business value assessment for an implementation (either greenfield or brownfield) of SAP S/4 HANA. Real life experience in using components from SAP Activate methodology as part of program implementation.
- Good Analytical and Assessment skills in driving the discovery workshop, performing the AS-IS assessment and Fit-Gap Analysis, and providing suggestion of TO-BE design in terms of Cost, tools, people, and Organizations (i.e., change management).
